Live action Darling in the franXX

Rating: 6/10 (6 June 2019)

Pacific Rim is good but not great.
CHARACTERS
The reason this movie is good is because of the characters, but it's also a reason for why it's not great.
Raleigh is a pretty bland protagonist that has a conflict which never ever gets explored and gets ignored through out the movie which makes him really bland and the acting of that protagonist isn't really that amazing either.
Mako is the only one who is even a decent character cause they manage to give her conflict and a backstory in a subtle way which gives the viewer enough information to know what's going on with her character but also wanting more from her backstory (they showed that greatly with the scene of her as a kid) and doing that they can actually make sequels, novels, comics etc explaining her backstory so they can get extra cash by expanding the lore of Pacific rim (which they did).
But how they finished mako's character arc was bad.
When they used the gipsy (I think) for the first time it didn't go well for mako and mako couldn't control the gipsy with Raleigh which would be a good way to develop her character but they just ignore and for the second time the use gipsy they did very well ignoring the conflict that was set up.
Chuc Hansen is a very bad character.
The reason I bring him up is cause they rushed his character arc and executed it very poorly.
They broke the rule with show don't tell and Stacker just said every problem Chuc Hansen had which could potentially be used to develop Hansen. One of those problems were daddy issues which the movie never shown that Chuc had so we never knew it until Stacker said it.
CGI
the CGI was really good and they manage to blend in the location the robot and the Kaiju really well.
ACTION
The action was bland it was basically a robot hitting a monster in the most blandest way possible.
It was just a bunch of basic moves you see used in many movies.
And the weird thing is that when Raleigh was fighting Makos candidates the fighting style there is very very different from what we see in the movie.
In real life they use a certain fighting style that's pretty well choreographed but when they fight in the robot that fighting style gets thrown out the window and they just use basic fighting techniques.
FINAL ACT
The final act was great and put me on edge managing to finalize a bit of Makos arc and they manage to set the stakes pretty high which is a good feat cause this movie has those "the end of the world" stakes that can often go bad.
VERDICT
I heard there was a sequel to this movie which I wonder how that's even possible since they won and they prevented the Kaiju from arriving in their world.
They will probably do a bs explanation to why the Kaiju can still arrive at their world.
6/10 it's fun.